[BGU Sociology] Esmail Nashif "Entrenching the Boycott in the Principles of the Resistance"

Editorial Note

Esmail Nashif (BGU) uses a Marxist analysis to expand on the use of boycott. He states that as currently practiced, the boycott aims at "weakening the Zionist regime in Palestine" based on the "contradictions of this regime." But, in his view, the boycott is only limited as it calls for Israel's compliance with international law and its withdrawal from the West Bank.

Nashif proposes to put the boycott into a broader historical perspective of 1948; this would mobilize the entire Palestinian community, including the Diaspora and broaden the goal to demand the return of the refugees to Israel proper. Moreover, the new vision would put the boycott in "the Arab-Islamic historical context as a primary frame of reference and not in the context of the authority of Western purity, as is currently the case." In other words, the boycott would shape the new Palestinian consciousness and make it a more effective tool to fight the "Zionist colonial oppressor."